Co-location

Interconnection

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CenturyLink® offers network and interconnection options to help you get and stay connected to an Ecosystem of business partners, network operators and 40,000+ lit buildings including 260+ data centres that are just a cross connect away. CenturyLink provides low-latency, secure, reliable and high availability along with carrier diversity options between geographic locations or within the data centre.

Cloud and XaaS (Everything-as-a-Service) Providers

Cyxtera works with a variety of global service providers to interconnect their services, applications and infrastructure with their customers and business partners. CenturyLink, can enable your business with access to service providers in these data centres and beyond with direct, low-latency connections needed to build an effective Hybrid IT platform. Service providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Highwinds.

Ecosystem Communities

CenturyLink can provide access to high-performance interconnected ecosystems between data centres, clients, partners and execution venues for your industry specific applications such as Financial Markets and Healthcare data exchange. Our high-performance, low-latency managed connections are available in bandwidths up to 100Gbs with a full range of access options and service level agreements.

Diverse Carrier Access

Cyxtera provides clients with access to 105 different carriers and network providers across its 60+ data centre footprint throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Cyxtera data centres offer an average of 7 network providers, some as many as 20.

Ability to connect additional network providers, working with clients and their existing providers.

Telco installation and troubleshooting coordination and support available via Gold Support.

CenturyLink Network Services

Our Network Services deliver secure, reliable connectivity with low latency and high availability-whether you are connecting between geographically diverse locations or points within the data centre.

Internet bandwidth. Connect your users and bandwidth-intensive business applications, with superior peering and interconnectivity—plus reliability with a network \ recovery time of less than 50 milliseconds.

Data Centre Connections

CenturyLink global fibre network provides low latency connectivity from any data centre to over 260 other carrier-neutral data centre facilities. This provides CenturyLink customers the ability to connect services & other key IT venues to support a Hybrid IT environment. The network connectivity enables access to geographic redundancy, ecosystem partners, cloud nodes such as CLC, AWS, Azure, Google, Softlayer and more. Use the power of CenturyLink to connect your business to everywhere you need to be.

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CenturyLink has sold its data centres and associated co-location business to a consortium led by BC Partners and Medina Capital Advisors. This move led to the creation of a bold, new company, Cyxtera Technologies, comprised of world-class talent and technology. CenturyLink will continue to work closely with Cyxtera and the same strong team that has operated the data centres successfully for years and who will continue to deliver world-class customer service and Operational Excellence for all co-location customers.